There are all sorts of substances you can put in meatloaf and throw over the fence to substantially shorten a pet's life. I recommend antifreeze; ethylene glycol poisoning usually looks like an accident and is hard to trace...
There may be some truth to your speculation; I believe always-indoor cats do have a longer expected lifetime than cats that are allowed to roam outdoors.
I can just imagine how often a 300 year old dog is going to piss on the carpet. Look, maybe dogs and cats have a 20 year lifespan for a reason?
Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again: With modern medical science, it is obvious that there has never been a better time than today to be a mouse! Other species, you need to wait in line; mice get it first!
I worked for a company (Validec, later sold to Remanco) that implemented a restaurant POS system for wireless terminals based on slotted ALOHA back in 1983... surely this was patented and counts as prior art? (The PC-based base station transmitted slot signals, after which wireless terminals could start broadcasting, meaning they all started broadcasting at the same time, allowing collision detection to be slightly more efficent. The system failed badly during training, as the trainer instructed 30 people to all press "send" at exactly the same time.)
Apparently you don't remember the SCO Group suing Linux customers... that's people that were using Linux, not people that implemented it! Unfortunately, the way the law SHOULD work and the way it actually DOES work are too completely different things.
No, electric dryers and stoves in the US have cords that are sold separately, since there are apparently several different plug configurations. (Strange that there is no standard.)
The Lexus hoverboard ONLY works on a very expensive prebuilt metal track, which gets around the biggest drawback of a real hoverboard: there is no way to turn it. Once set in motion, it obeys Newton's First Law. The Hendo only requires a ferrous surface, but I can't believe the batteries last very long, and see the above reference to Newton's First law of motion: it doesn't turn.
Since OSX is based on the Mach Kernel and uses a lot of BSD utilities, in many ways both OSX and Linux are Unix. I found it extremely easy to port a Linux based CUPS printer driver to OSX; the biggest challenge was getting it to compile in XCode. Presumably porting from OSX to Linux would be pretty straightforward to. Despite Microsoft's claims of POSIX compatibility, porting for OSX to Windows would be much more difficult. (All leave it to others to debate how big a lie Microsoft's "POSIX compliant" claim was/is. I think it was just a marketing scam to make Windows eligible for government procurement.)
This mirrors my reaction to people that protest strip clubs located in their neighborhood. My response is, instead of holding up signs, why not have volunteers photograph the license plates of every customer's vehicle, and publish the information somewhere? That seems like the most effective method to put these places out of business, although it only discourages the people that actually care whether or not people know they were there.
Why not? Because it's only a victimless crime if nobody else cares that you're there. Also, there is also a societal interest in preventing disease that dictates it must be closely monitored. Finally, even "legal" prostitution may involve fraud or coercion, so it must be closely regulated to make sure all participants truly give informed consent. In theory, I'm not opposed to the practice -- I just think it must be tightly controlled for practical reasons.
I'd say "informed consent" is the operative principle here. While minors are capable of consenting, they are generally not considered knowledgeable enough to give informed consent.
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Let's stop this before it starts: MY dog uses vi, not emacs, dammit!
It would be a lot easier to just clone Fifi over and over, and replace the annoying little bitch with a perfect replica puppy every ten years...
Show me a cat big enough to take on city rats and pigeons, and I might be interested.
There are all sorts of substances you can put in meatloaf and throw over the fence to substantially shorten a pet's life. I recommend antifreeze; ethylene glycol poisoning usually looks like an accident and is hard to trace...
There may be some truth to your speculation; I believe always-indoor cats do have a longer expected lifetime than cats that are allowed to roam outdoors.
I can just imagine how often a 300 year old dog is going to piss on the carpet. Look, maybe dogs and cats have a 20 year lifespan for a reason?
Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again: With modern medical science, it is obvious that there has never been a better time than today to be a mouse! Other species, you need to wait in line; mice get it first!
Hasn't Major Butthurt been promoted to the rank of General yet? Certainly a lot or people have recommended the promotion by now!
But... what about Aramaic?
"Notice that they do not so much fly as... plummet." -- Monty Python
I worked for a company (Validec, later sold to Remanco) that implemented a restaurant POS system for wireless terminals based on slotted ALOHA back in 1983... surely this was patented and counts as prior art? (The PC-based base station transmitted slot signals, after which wireless terminals could start broadcasting, meaning they all started broadcasting at the same time, allowing collision detection to be slightly more efficent. The system failed badly during training, as the trainer instructed 30 people to all press "send" at exactly the same time.)
Apparently you don't remember the SCO Group suing Linux customers... that's people that were using Linux, not people that implemented it! Unfortunately, the way the law SHOULD work and the way it actually DOES work are too completely different things.
How did the patent meet the "non-obvious" requirement for a patent to be granted in the first place?
I saw the genuine product in a movie once... but it still bogged down going over water!
No, electric dryers and stoves in the US have cords that are sold separately, since there are apparently several different plug configurations. (Strange that there is no standard.)
The Lexus hoverboard ONLY works on a very expensive prebuilt metal track, which gets around the biggest drawback of a real hoverboard: there is no way to turn it. Once set in motion, it obeys Newton's First Law. The Hendo only requires a ferrous surface, but I can't believe the batteries last very long, and see the above reference to Newton's First law of motion: it doesn't turn.
Right, the product name "Hovertrax" is in NO WAY misleading, is it?
Hint: IT. DOESN'T. HOVER!!!
Right... that's why nobody uses Java!
How about just using the best tools for the job?
"App" is the new "moo"!
Since OSX is based on the Mach Kernel and uses a lot of BSD utilities, in many ways both OSX and Linux are Unix. I found it extremely easy to port a Linux based CUPS printer driver to OSX; the biggest challenge was getting it to compile in XCode. Presumably porting from OSX to Linux would be pretty straightforward to. Despite Microsoft's claims of POSIX compatibility, porting for OSX to Windows would be much more difficult. (All leave it to others to debate how big a lie Microsoft's "POSIX compliant" claim was/is. I think it was just a marketing scam to make Windows eligible for government procurement.)
Shortest book in the world: the directory of honest politicians!
Shouldn't it be in Chicago?
This mirrors my reaction to people that protest strip clubs located in their neighborhood. My response is, instead of holding up signs, why not have volunteers photograph the license plates of every customer's vehicle, and publish the information somewhere? That seems like the most effective method to put these places out of business, although it only discourages the people that actually care whether or not people know they were there.
Why not? Because it's only a victimless crime if nobody else cares that you're there. Also, there is also a societal interest in preventing disease that dictates it must be closely monitored. Finally, even "legal" prostitution may involve fraud or coercion, so it must be closely regulated to make sure all participants truly give informed consent. In theory, I'm not opposed to the practice -- I just think it must be tightly controlled for practical reasons.
I'd say "informed consent" is the operative principle here. While minors are capable of consenting, they are generally not considered knowledgeable enough to give informed consent.